2023 Three Sentence Ficathon - Post #1

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Welcome to the 2023 Three Sentence Ficathon!
As of 16 Jan 2023 this post is NOW CLOSED TO NEW PROMPTS! PLEASE POST YOUR NEW PROMPTS HERE, IN POST 2! Do continue to fill prompts here but please put all new prompts in Post 2.



This post will remain open for new prompts until we hit 4000 comments, at which point we'll open a new one to avoid captcha as long as possible. New fills and comments on fills will always be welcome.


How to Prompt

Prompts should be one prompt per comment, formatted in this way: fandom, character(s), prompt word/sentence

Example: Star Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi, I don't like sand

Prompts may also be open ended, unspecific, or anthropomorphic, such as:

any, any, I don't like sand
or
Earth geography, sand, I don't like humans very much, either

Prompts for relationships are welcome; a / is used for romantic/sexual relationships and an & for platonic. A prompt that uses both means the relationship can be written as either romantic or platonic, such as:

Star Wars, Anakin/&Obi-Wan, I don't like sand

Prompts may be repeated if they are unfilled; there is no obligation to read through every prompt to make sure yours isn't a repeat. This year's 3SF will stay open for new prompts through Sunday, February 12th.

How to Fill

Respond to your chosen prompt with a short fic of three sentences containing the fandom & characters requested!

Prompts can be filled more than once, as many times as someone has a new idea for them.

Notes & Rules

No, fills do not need to be exactly three sentences! It's more of a guideline. Please abuse grammar and punctuation as much as desired.

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Comments

[be_themoon]

leverage, parker/elliot/hardison, happiness too is sometimes slow to register

[mxcatmoon]

Parker and Hardison used to worry that being with them wasn’t making Eliot happy.

Since they’d gotten together, he was just as gruff and growly as always, never showing his feelings.

They eventually realize that Eliot shows his happiness by protecting them, cooking for them, and by always being there.

[syrena_of_the_lake]

Any, any, unusual items in lost and found

[smallhobbit]

Amongst the most popular are umbrellas and odd gloves - never, of course, a pair. There are a surprising number of glasses cases, with or without contents, hearing aids, false teeth, and even artificial limbs. But a sabre tooth tiger, how do you manage to lose one of those, but at least it was a small one and could be kept in the large dog kennel (also misplaced).

[be_themoon]

star wars, cassian, i admit i am afraid of isolation

[be_themoon]

duck hunt (discord), ducks, insurgency

[(Anonymous)]

"The magazine refill and the barrel grease will cost you 14 exp, Sarge," the shopkeep tallied up the order.

"Just put it on my bill," Sarge instructed wryly through an otherwise stoic demeanor.

Sarge always cracked jokes after a costly battle; this time was no different.

[be_themoon]

battlestar galactica (2003), kara/lee, i don't think i ever loved that gently

[be_themoon]

narnia, susan/edmund, one year since i've seen the mountains or had proof love could be enough

i got tired of tragedy, have some pre-smut

[vialethe]

“Take me away from here, Edmund,” she says, and though she’s striving for royal authority in her voice, it’s only his sister who comes through, her voice too much in her throat, her eyes fallen too often to his mouth, her fingers brushing his arm too often for chance. “Please - Calormen, the Islands, I don’t care where, but if we stay here-” and he hears it without words, because he feels it too: if we stay here, we will break, and everyone will know.

A quick look around shows no one in sight, and so he kisses her there for the first time, short and sharp in the shadows of her balcony, and when he breaks it off (over her swallowed whimper of protest, a sound that makes him harder than it has any right to), he says, “I’ve been longing for a trip to the mountains, myself,” and prays for the patience to wait, just a few days longer.

[theseatheseatheopensea]

Our Flag Means Death, Ed, Once, all the stars in the sky were bright, now they're red and fading, and all the colours we wore, the shades that we bore have moved.

Fill

[chronologicalimplosion]

"Does that star look red to you?" Ed asked his first mate one night, when he was supposed to be watching the nigh-invisible stormclouds on the dark horizon to see whether the winds were blowing them in or out.

Ed had hoped Izzy might ask something like where?, or at least look around for it, instead of grumbling "What has that got to do with the storm?"

"Nothing," Ed mumbled, trying to remember whether the star had actually been more yellow the day before, and whether his first mate would ever have gone along with a whiff of bare, niggling curiosity, feeling clouded over on both counts by the distant mirage of what he wanted to remember.

[be_themoon]

supernatural, castiel, we're surely creatures with unknown gods

[be_themoon]

alex rider, alex, and this can only end wrong

[wingedflight]

He knows it’s a bad idea just as he knows there’s no other way; the assassin will bleed out in minutes if Alex lets him disappear from Airforce One on his own.

So Alex goes with him.

He catches up to Yassen at the top of the metal stairs, ducking under the man’s arm just as Yassen is beginning to lose his balance; Alex tightens his grip, steadies Yassen, and helps him to one of Cray’s trucks.

[(Anonymous)]

Any fairy tale, any, you demanded my firstborn, your demand was for my firstborn son, sorry not sorry, my firstborn is a girl

Original Fic, fairy patterned on Maleficent and Rumpelstiltskin

[silveradept]

"And now," the fairy says, swooping in with malice, "I will take the king as I was promised by his parents at his birth."

The king and queen both look at the fairy, confused. "I don't know what you were told by my parents, but I am Akane, king of this land, and ever since my birth, I have been a girl," she says, the words carrying the metallic tang of truth the fairy can taste.

[schoolsasaint]

Greek Myth, any, wine-dark skies

Lustre (King Midas)

[woodmr]

They agreed it was important to pacify whatever remained of the gods’ ire and so kept vigil as the altar’s fire burned low, smoke mixing with sunset, royalty rich with wealth but bereft of their last child. At nightfall she poured a libation on the pyre but Midas clapped hands upon its stonework ere Zeus received this benediction. “Be cursed as we are,” he cried in despair, gold shining like their daughter’s memory, gold less valued than their son’s life, gold that rose above the yawning knit in the earth but left in their hearts.

[(Anonymous)]

Doctor Who, any, eldritch Time Lords

[ravenlilyrose]

Sometimes, when she caught a glimpse of him out of the corner of her eye, Rose thought she could see... something more about the Doctor (a kind of darkbright glow or sprawling energy), but when she looked at him more directly it was always gone. And then he'd look at her and grin that stupid grin and she'd forget that he was anything but her man-shaped Time Lord best friend.
That weird glow stayed with him after he changed, too, and though it was always hard to remember, it did help her to believe that this was the same man, even though his grin and his eyes and his hair and his style and almost everything else about him had changed.

[(Anonymous)]

Doctor Who, any, fae Time Lords

Doctor Who, Amy Pond

[adriennefae]

She can almost, perhaps, remember being told never to tell them her name.
It was her mother, probably, but she can hardly remember her mother now, only a vague sense that surely she must have had one, as all children do.
It certainly wasn’t her aunt. Aunt Sharon’s not around enough to tell Amelia much of anything at all, and even if she had, it wouldn’t have been that. She’s never believed in that sort of thing anyway.
But whichever it was, Amelia hardly remembers. If it even happened at all. It certainly doesn’t feel as real as the strange-looking man who stands in front of her, who pulls the forbidden name from her lips as if by magic, leaving her unsure if she’s been foolish or if she's been enchanted or if she’s simply stopped thinking being stolen away would really be all that bad.
Amelia Pond.
Like a name in a fairy tale.
A fairy tale. Perhaps her mother read her some - but she doesn't know.
But perhaps, she thinks, she can find her own.

[schoolsasaint]

Assassin's Creed, Eivor, row to the end of the whaleroad

[be_themoon]

Eivor knows her place on the crew, knows the joy of one hand on support and both eyes on the horizon, knows just how to call the shots to make sure everyone rows how they should.

She's always wanted to go farther, deeper, knows that her crew deserves better than to bend to her heart grasping vision of the horizon, the way it would be so easy to go just a little bit more, just a little more.

She wraps her hand firmer, calls the halt and the rest, takes her eyes away from the horizon to tend to her wounded.

[(Anonymous)]

Doctor Who, any, Susan Foreman as the Timeless Child

[(Anonymous)]

Doctor Who, any, Susan Foreman comes back

Thirteenth Doctor, Susan, Yaz

[astrogirl]

"Grandfather, it is you!" the woman says, her smile tentative at first, then impossibly wide, and Yaz looks to the Doctor, expecting... she isn't sure what. A look of puzzlement, a laugh? But instead she spreads her arms wide and says, "Susan, it's me!", and Yaz thought she was used to all the Doctor's secrets and surprises, but what the hell is she supposed to do with this?

[(Anonymous)]

Doctor Who, any, Ace at the Time Lord Academy

[(Anonymous)]

Doctor Who, Third Doctor, meeting a later incarnation of the Master

[lyssie]

"I always was partial to this velvet look of yours," the woman said, leaning up against him and almost purring.

Really, her conduct was quite out of bounds, even if there was something almost familiar about her (which he would dash himself as a fool for later, once Jo had stopped laughing); still, he frowned as he carefully stepped away from her, "My dear young woman--"

"Oh, I do like being your dear, and it's Missy," she replied before pulling a gun from within her umbrella and gesturing with it, "now, if you'd be so kind, I need to borrow a few things from your TARDIS."

[tellshannon815]

Yellowjackets, anyone, “So why’d you destroy the black box, Misty?”

[isabrella]

Taissa holds up the once-electric guts of the black box: “So, why’d you do it, Misty?” she asks; the other Yellowjackets surround her, every one of them with arms crossed, eyes narrowed, cheekbones hollow from the months of starvation. They all have a reason to hate her.

“I did it for all of us,” Misty says, pushing her glasses back up her stout nose and folding her arms to mirror her accusers, “I did it for the team.”

[raisedbymoogles]

Super Mario series, Peach, in which the Princess travels to the magical land of New York and saves the world

Peach (and Captain Toad and Rosalina and Lumas), Calling the Cavalry

[silveradept]

"Look, your Highness, you're in New York, super capital of the world, there's no way that two plumbers from Brooklyn can help you any more with this problem," the cart guy said, indicating the unfolding battle above them between Bowser's fleet and the various costumed heroes attempting to provide air defense.

Peach nodded, thanked him for the information, then returned to the warp pipe she had come up through in the middle of the park and whistled.

"This is the correct place, Captain Toad, Queen Rosalina," she said, and then waited patiently as the Mushroom Kingdom's finest explorer and pilot led the Toad Air Force out into the skies from the pipe, followed by a smaller version of the Luma Observatory, surrounded by as many of the living stars as Peach and Rosalina had been able to recruit on short notice.

[raisedbymoogles]

FF7, Lucrecia, Adventure! Romance! Mad Science!

[raisedbymoogles]

any, any, beach episode

FF7 Crisis Core, Cissnei & Tseng

[anonne]

"You're not even gonna try looking the part?" said Cissnei, casting her eyes over Tseng's ever-present dark suit. "Zack thinks this is a vacation. Bad enough having us here in the first place."

"I'm sure he doesn't mind having you here," said Tseng, not looking at her – she had realised he tended to avoid doing so while she was wearing her bikini. "He's a SOLDIER First Class; we can't just let him wander around the world without backup. Especially unarmed."

Cissnei glanced at the parasol Zack gripped with both hands, and thought, no worries there.

[raisedbymoogles]

any, any, onsen episode

Soaking Snake (Sex Pistols; Yonekuni/Shiro)

[kalira]

Shiro trailed a hand over his mate's shoulder and smiled faintly, feeling how utterly relaxed he was - and the softest thrum of a pleased moan in his throat, making Shiro want to curl into him.

Yonekuni slipped an arm around his waist and Shiro let out a startled yip, then laughed as he slid easily into Yonekuni's lap, the water lapping around them; Yonekuni buried his face in Shiro's neck with another soft moan, sinking lower in the almost painfully hot water.

Shiro's lips quirked as he remembered Kunimasa's parting words as he'd left with his own sleepily lax, flushed mate - good luck indeed; the words and the little snort as he'd offered them made rather more sense, now; Shiro wasn't sure how or even if he could get his happily basking, very hot mate out of the onsen.

[reeby10]

Doctor Who, Twelve/Clara, I'll love you forever

[raisedbymoogles]

FF7(/Compliation/Remake), any, fun Materia to use in the bedroom